Ruby Issue Tracking System

07/22/2010

03:26 PM Ruby Feature #3595: Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string

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Hi,
Well I was unaware of this. In that case the argument Bill has can be seen as an issue. Reading a file with the IO object would read the ASCII tags, and you wouldn't know what to do. The tags map to both Ascii 7-bit and asc... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

03:41 AM Ruby Feature #3595: Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string

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And lets face it, if Encoding::BINARY were its own seperate encoding that shouldnt really hurt anybody. Given the definition of what binary data is. If a ruby programmer wants to continue using 8-Bit Ascii strings that shouldn't ... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

03:23 AM Ruby Feature #3595: Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string

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Let me re-phase this another way:

Its simply a very poor assumption to say that the Encoding "BINARY" is an alias of ASCII-8-bit.

Its true that Ruby would store the string as an octet stream identically to an 8-bit ASCI... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

01:34 AM Ruby Feature #3595: Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string

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Sorry but I asked for an encoding for BINARY data. Not 'octets'. Not 'ascii-anything'. You seem to have misunderstood.

01101110110 ?
11011110 ?

Think about it, the correct encoding BINARY should always only ever be a ... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

04:38 AM Ruby Bug #3596: Can Marshal nested Hash from 1.9.2 --> 1.8.7

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Hi,
Actually this turned out to be a bug in the program receiving the data. I have now re-tested and there is no problem with the marshal.c sources in either direction between these Ruby versions. Sorry for the mistake.
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dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

01:06 AM Ruby Bug #3596 (Rejected): Can Marshal nested Hash from 1.9.2 --> 1.8.7

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Hi,
The loaded Hash object has empty values where the inner hashes should be:

expected:
{"HashKeyA"=>{"StringA"=>"a"}, "HashKeyB"=>{"StringA"=>"a"}, "HashKeyC"=>{"StringA"=>"a"}, "HashKeyD"=>{"StringA"=>"a"}, "HashKeyE"=... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)

07/21/2010

06:34 PM Ruby Feature #3595 (Rejected): Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string

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Hi,
It would help if we could have a seperate encoding for binary strings to mark them as binary data and not lump it in with ASCII.

Why cant we do this?

As things stand, I have to re-open String and add an attribute ... dreamcat4 (Dreamcat Four)